Sentences with phrase «abiding presence»

It has been suggested (and the idea has merit) that, at the moment our sins were placed on Jesus» shoulders, God's spirit left because He could not abide the presence of sin.

As shock muffled my ability to experience God's abiding presence with me, my director invited me to open myself to discover all the ways God was reassuring me that I was not walking this journey by myself.

He said, «we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming [literal: abiding presence] of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majest» It happened.

It's as if Lynch has captured the constant vigilance and abiding presence of his professional life as a funeral director in his written words.

The mere presence of the Church, which for all the faults of her members remains the abiding presence of Christ in the world, reminds the secular world of something it would rather forget.

The Church is also the Body of Christ enjoying his abiding presence through the ages, as well as the guidance of the Holy Spirit who continues to remind us of all Jesus did and taught, as Jesus himself promised.

The Spirit comes from God and is the abiding presence of Christ.

In conclusion, Fr Pacwa's book should provoke any priest to ponder what it is he is doing in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, and it should be a great help to the laity in understanding the abiding presence of Our Lord in the action of the Mass and in Eucharistic adoration.

And we can't forget them very easily either because the abiding presence of Mr Hockney is always helping to draw our attention back to them.

Laaser takes the «higher power» rhetoric of 12 - step programs and makes Biblical references to grace (to overcome the feelings of despair and shame that accompany addiction) and the abiding presence of God as a companion in the journey.